Wedding Homily
To wed is a privilege, a responsibility and a blessing. [Names] you have known each other for a very long time... Your lives have intertwined in several different ways, and over this time the precious gift of friendship grew... . Because you are mature people, you come to this day with a lifetime of experience... and yes, through the normal passage of time, this experience has included problems, challenge and pain... . Together, you now choose to turn your faces to the future. You have the courage to say YES to the reality of love... YES to the promise of joy that sustains you not just today but throughout all days, for as long as you both draw breath, and then in memory into the beyond.
I pray that you bring into this union the strengths that have carried you to this day. I pray that you expect from one another not perfection but a willingness to learn... I pray that you know that mind-reading is a parlor trick, and not a skill that either of you can give or expect from your mate. ... I wish for you the courage to change when old ways do not lead where you want this marriage to go. The wisdom to listen when it would be so much easier to speak. The humility to say "I'm sorry," and the graciousness to let all wrongs live in their own time.
Love one another. Hold fast when winds of trouble come your way. Let your marriage be a source of encouragement, a house of nurture and abode of hope. When you are angry, remember why it is you love. When you feel loving, always take an extra step to let it show.
Choose to risk your significance, for it is in weaving the deep connection of marriage, that you will each become the greater self you have it in you to be. Commit fully, and graceful blessings will companion you together throughout your days.
About the Author: Rev. M. Maureen Killoran is a Unitarian Universalist minister and life coach in western North Carolina. With over 20 years' experience, she delights in helping couples create unique and joyful weddings, services of union and other rituals for life passages. Visit her site.
I pray that you bring into this union the strengths that have carried you to this day. I pray that you expect from one another not perfection but a willingness to learn... I pray that you know that mind-reading is a parlor trick, and not a skill that either of you can give or expect from your mate. ... I wish for you the courage to change when old ways do not lead where you want this marriage to go. The wisdom to listen when it would be so much easier to speak. The humility to say "I'm sorry," and the graciousness to let all wrongs live in their own time.
Love one another. Hold fast when winds of trouble come your way. Let your marriage be a source of encouragement, a house of nurture and abode of hope. When you are angry, remember why it is you love. When you feel loving, always take an extra step to let it show.
Choose to risk your significance, for it is in weaving the deep connection of marriage, that you will each become the greater self you have it in you to be. Commit fully, and graceful blessings will companion you together throughout your days.
About the Author: Rev. M. Maureen Killoran is a Unitarian Universalist minister and life coach in western North Carolina. With over 20 years' experience, she delights in helping couples create unique and joyful weddings, services of union and other rituals for life passages. Visit her site.
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